Sports Shorts: Marshwood wrestlers fare well at nationals

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Marshwood High School wrestlers Cody Hughes and Brad Beaulieu both won three matches in their respective tournaments without a loss Friday at the High School National Wrestling Championships at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

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Posted Mar. 29, 2014 at 2:00 AM

Posted Mar. 29, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Marshwood High School wrestlers Cody Hughes and Brad Beaulieu both won three matches in their respective tournaments without a loss Friday at the High School National Wrestling Championships at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

Last year in Virginia Beach, Hughes won the 152-pound championship of the Sophomore Division. Wrestling at the same weight, he won his first match Friday, and then beat Austin Tucker of North Carolina (fall, 3:45) and Tyler Wilson of Ohio (17-2).

Beaulieu opened with a win over Haden Mackowiak of Maryland (fall). He then beat Zachary Ancewicz of New York (6-0) and Jason Dalcortivo of New Jersey (10-0).

The tournament continues today and Sunday.

Two other Marshwood wrestlers are competing. Junior Jackson Howarth won his first two matches in the Junior Division (160 pounds) before losing, and will continue to compete today to earn a place.

Junior Brett Gerry split two matches in the Junior Division at 182 pounds.

A record 3,367 wrestlers from 47 states make up the field for the event. The field is separated into five divisions (senior, junior, sophomore, freshman and middle school).

— Mike Zhe

KEENE — Keene State College sophomore Mariah Crisp, a former softball standout at Portsmouth High School, was named the Little East Conference Pitcher of the Week.

In five starts and six appearances, Crisp posted a 3-2 record with a 0.57 ERA. The Greenland native allowed just three earned runs over 36 2/3 innings while striking out 56 batters. Crisp had a season-high 15 strikeouts during a complete-game shutout victory over McDaniel.

PORTSMOUTH — Charlie Nevejans' 23 points helped The Fighting McIssacs to an 85-80 overtime win over Bamboozles in a high school boys basketball game on Friday in the 65th annual Seacoast Basketball Tournament at the Connie Bean Community Center.

In a fifth- and sixth-grade girls game, Bri Frank's 14 points led Marshwood to a 28-9 win over Dover.

Also in the fifth- and sixth-grade girls division, Nina Howe scored a game-high 18 points as York beat Hampton, 31-25.

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players suspended during the season for a performance-enhancing drug violation will not be eligible for that year's postseason under changes to the sport's drug agreement announced Friday.

In the most significant toughening to the drug rules in eight years, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association said the penalty will increase from 50 games to 80 for a first testing violation and from 100 games to a season-long 162 for a second. A third violation remains a lifetime ban.

Baseball started testing with penalties in 2004, established a 10-day suspension for a first testing violation in 2005 and increased the discipline to 50 games in 2006.

DETROIT (AP) — Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera will earn a baseball-record $292 million over the next decade under a $248 million, eight-year deal with the Detroit Tigers.

Cabrera, who turns 31 on April 18, is due $44 million over the final two years of his $152.3 million, eight-year contract that runs through 2015. The new deal was announced Friday at a news conference in Lakeland, Fla.

The contract's average of $31 million tops the previous mark of $30,714,286 set by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw in his $215 million, seven-year deal in January. The total commitment tops the record set by New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez with a $275 million, 10-year agreement in 2007.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Phil Mickelson made the cut on the number in the Texas Open on Friday, blasting out of a greenside water hazard to 5 feet to set up a birdie on the final hole.

Mickelson shot a 2-under 70 after opening with a 77 at TPC San Antonio's AT&T Oaks Course. Lefty was 11 strokes behind leader Steven Bowditch, the Australian who had a 67 to reach 8-under 136.

Mickelson was in the stream that runs in front of the 18th green after attempting to reach the par 5 in two from 288 yards with a 3-wood.

Bowditch holed out from 83 yards for an eagle on the par-4. The 30-year-old topped the leaderboard at the end of a round for the first time in his PGA Tour career.

Chad Collins and rookie Andrew Loupe were a stroke back. Collins shot 66, and Loupe had a 70.